Great reminder that if somethings already broken you're not going to break it even more if you open it up to take a look, and it doesn't take Big Clive to diagnose and fix a faulty solder joint. Thanks for the vid!
I like the way you tin your soldering iron's tip every time. I always forget that. In fact, I had forgotten about that over the years. Good technique. You're a fearless kind of a guy. I learn a lot. The best one I learned from you was the Honda generator connection to a bulk tank. I did that on my two-Honda power station for my fifth wheel built into my truck bed box. Thank you.
Nice fix I have a booster box that I bought at Sam's club about 20yrs ago the battery finally died about 6yrs ago I found the exact replacement on eBay for $34 with free shipping I took it apart and installed the new one It still works great
i really do enjoy your videos. The explanations are clear and really easy to follow. Tips and tricks are well covered in plenty enough detail.Really good balance. Never being blinded by science nor dumbed down. you take the time to make video shots cover exactly what we need to see. Thanks for your work. Keep doing what you do. And Ginger doggy. so clever! So loyal!! reminds me of my own sheepdog, Roxy. (GSD x Border Collie). I have a little video of her on my channel. she made it to 20 yro. Really REALLY liked me bouncing tennis balls on tarmac hard so she could run and still catch. Thanks.
It makes you wander how much stuff gets thrown out that is a simple fix to get it going. I stopped buying Stanley products along time ago the quality just isn’t there anymore. Anyway thanks for sharing love your channel
Came for the repair, stayed for the dog. Great save. I have a microwave that has the loudest and most annoying beep I’ve ever heard. I keep hoping the microwave will take a dump so I can justify opening it up.
Moe, I bought one of these also about a year ago from Sam’s Club and so far so good. But you always wonder. Thanks for the video, gives me somewhere to troubleshoot. This was probably built on a Friday afternoon. My compressor is comparable to the M12 Milwaukee I own. They are ok for a motorcycle or bike but a car tire is a challenge. You’re the man!
I hope you didn't purchase the extended warranty!!! It makes the manufacturers warranty obsolete and they don't tell you that. Mine burnt out a few weeks ago. Thought everything was okay cause I shouldve had a year left on the warranty..... but nope! Now I'm trying to find a replacement compressor assembly to swap out the burnt one. And after a week of searching, no luck so far. And if you can swap out a car stereo and speakers, you can swap out this stupid part.
I thought it would be a bad battery like most of them are. I just discovered your channel and you have got some good videos with good examples of troubleshooting and problem solving. You caught that bad solder joint pretty quickly. I like your logical approach to the diagnostic.
@@sixtyfiveford My Fatmax turns on out of nowhere the compressor I press any key and out of nowhere it turns on when it wants to turn off what can I do please help me
@@diazdiaz6807 I have the same problem with the Ever Start 1200. Just turns on. I have no idea how to make it stay off. Everything talks about using it and turning it on. Nothing about turning off.
Not 2 weeks ago I opened mine up. It was about 20 years old.. It's been dead on my shelf for years and totally forgotten, but I opened it up and it was the exact same battery as inside of yours!! I also liked charging mine off from a real battery charger and did it by hooking the jumper leads to my charger leads. I'd heard you could not do that on some jump boxes and that people were trying it and popping a fuse of something inside. Mine was pretty simple and as long as the switch was closed, it charged.. I had to use mine as a booster for my trailer winch several times and man did that work well!!
if for some reason you want to keep the beeper, but it's just too damn loud. A piece of tape over the top of them will often attenuate the volume dramatically.
@@sixtyfiveford I had a fan with an annoying beep and I hit the buzzer with a glob of hot glue. No more beeping and I didn't have to worry about screwing up the circuit board.
I extremely appreciate this video!! My girl picked one of these up for me out of our neighbors trash because my neighbor said it didn't work! Well it did!! And with this video I learned A LOT more about it!!! Thank you very much!!!
I just picked one up similarly. Having a heck of a time trying to figure out if it is worth lugging around. Going to o a full charge and amp hour test on it to see that but I rerally picked it up hoping it had a high amp charger for its own battery and to use parts with a deep cycle off grid set up. Not sure it's worth tearing into for me, might pass it on
Great fix, when I buy a computer UPS I twist off the beeper, very easy, no un-soldering needed, just twist left & right and they come off the board cleanly.
I actually got this exact same one that one of my tenants left in our property. The issue with mine was one of the buttons was broke and stuck inside the unit. I opened it to repair the button and reassembled it. Evidently just as you did, I hit the connector for the USB ports and disconnected it. It was doing the exact thing yours was, flashing and wouldn't turn off. I figured it was probably something in the circuitry and was going to tear back into it when I had time. Then out of nowhere you posted this video! I swear it was just a couple days ago I was working on mine and I was looking for videos to see if I could get an idea of what was wrong. Seeing your discovery of the connector, I knew exactly what was wrong with mine. I was so excited I paused your video grabbed mine and fixed it in less than 5 minutes. Thank you for that! More than likely I would have discovered the problem when I tore back into it, but I'm sure it would have been days maybe weeks down the road. Now it works perfectly! I may go back in and delete the beeper as well!
Can you tell me how you repaired the broken button? I have the same issue with mine right now, button is stuck down and the unit won't stop beeping. Thank you for your help
@@bsmith1220 I wish I could help. It's been 2 years and I barely remember having it much less working on it. I will say it was an easy fix. I say open it up and the problem will be readily apparent.
I added a new 20 amp hour battery to one of these fixing it for a friend. It also had a loose usb connection and the original battery was low capacity when I tested it. But the new one works great. Great video!
A majority of family appliance repairs or short lifespan electronics repairs that I have done were broken solder nodes. It's one of the first things I look for in a troubleshoot. Most of the time it's due to a cold solder joint on a larger gauge wire or component lead - operator or flow solder parameter error.
I put one of these jump pack style batteries into my 22hp zero turn mower, works well. In freezing weather if I need to start it I always supplement with another jump pack at cold start, but subsequent starts are fine. In summer it cold starts just fine. It's lasted way longer than the standard lead acid batteries that the mower came with.
It's been decades since I bought a mower battery. I just save the truck batteries and strap one on the mower running board, and tho it won't start a 2600 cc engine, always starts the mower. I always have an exchange battery too.
Thanks saw this in for market. The guy said won’t work. For 10.00 how could I go wrong? Loose wire…score works great!! Thank you for your video to help me fix it!✌️❤️
Thank You so very much Brother Man : fixed mine just like You did : However went one step further Installed Off Switch At Compressor to Keep it out of the loop : as mine was keeping mine from charging battry !!! " God Bless " You each and every day !!! Plus love the Dog !!!
When i worked at farm and fleet, they sold those Stanley jump packs, it was part of my job to remove the batteries from the defected ones because they were destroy/ no return to vendor. I fixed almost every single one before i destroyed it. I asked the manager once what the return rate was, 20%.
Dang beeping! Was bad enough that it would do it when you push the button, but it would constantly go off every 30 seconds while the leads were engaged.
As typical, electronics doesn't like to work without power. Not really unusual to see bad solder joints in so many electronic items. They just don't do quality solder connections properly unless it is a high end product. Thumbs Up!
Great fix on a free power pack ..It would be a nice one to take camping I had a 74 Nova and had that Irritating seat belt buzzer I could not get it un plugged so I crushed it with my pliers and once in a while it would still work and make a low growling sound that sounded so funny like it was dying
Thanks for the video, especially about how to take it apart. I keep mine in my truck tool box since it is a lead acid battery. I probably wouldn't do that with a lithium battery because of the heat.
You were blessed Moe , Most of those SLA batteries have full voltage and no amp hour after sitting , I do like to try them on the pulse charger and many revive for me .. I have a vid on that , So far I have found 1 in 4 come back to 90% .. That one was just a bad wiring job by the builder as they are so mass produced !
I've seen this happen & fixed quite a few myself. Solder flows onto the tinned the wire but if you don't get enough heat transfer to the pad, it can fool your eye into thinking it's fine, so you look closer & no bueno!!🤣🤣
I'm with you with these beeps. Everything beeps, I even got rid of the microwave and changed it for an early one without all the digital beeps every time you press something. Start a movement, I'll be your man in the UK branch.
Shout out from your neighbor to the south, I live in Herriman. I really enjoy your channel and hopefully one day I'll run into you locally but I do a lot of my own repairs like this and can totally believe why it failed. Thanks for the great content and keep it up.
We find these on the trash route a lot and my boss doesn’t want them being ran through the packer because of fire risk. We send them in once a year for the lead. Interesting to see if maybe they can be fixed.
Pop bought a coffee maker at a black Friday store , I had to take it apart to find they never plugged the power switch .. Easy fix an Pop is happy with it
I have the exact same one. It would be really awesome if you did a video on how do use your voltage meter. I know enough to be dangerous about one, but the truth is it’s kind of like dark magic for most people. Love your show brother. Need to get that old Ford on the road. I got my 63 Ford F250 run and last year, my kids and wife love driving it around with me to go get ice cream. I’ve had that old 63 Ford since 1995.
Got one just like it had it for about three or four years used it maybe five times last time took a charge but then it died started to throw it out before I did I took it apart the positive lead to the battery nut bolt came loose and fell off negative side was just loose unbelievable almost threw it out works perfect now
i have this same one i got used for 40 bucks. it kinda works. i replaced the battery, but it's still iffy. i have 4 others i got for free because they wouldn't hold a charge, and just replaced the battery and they work as they should. i haven't really checked out the stanley again yet. it has a lot more going on inside than the others.
I was stranded years ago and got the idea to try and jump my jeep using my old 18 volt NiCad DeWalt pack. I had known from a kids power wheels expierment which terminal was positive so I hooked my cables up using a couple screws to hook onto the batt. Tabs. Not sure how the lipo packs would act but I would definitely try if needed.
notice @3:58 the usb board connector is disconnected then @6:36 until 9:14 it's connected, then @11:52 it's disconnected again until it get fixed (again?) @12:00! Still good info!!
Great vid ! Well done and explained ! Crazy how easy something slips through the QC of those 11 year old boys in PRC..... would love to see you build (using one of the current jump pack cases) a seriously powerful jump pack that you’d be able to actually rely on in an off grid sitn for more than just one or two jumpstarts and a tire inflation.
I have a Cummins with 2 1000 Amp batteries and I found a 6000 Amp lithium 12v Avapow at Walmart for $ 93.00 and glad I did . My truck batteries are 3 years old and I have had to use the jump start 3 times. Really surprised.
Thanks for showing this. Awesome video. Great all around tips 👍 all through out. thanks for your time. And your dog is awesome! 🐕 I appreciate you showing me what's in mine beofre I take my cover off of it
Thank you and you did it again gave us a great video great entertainment I wish I was a smarter as you.. I can’t even remember how to wire tractor up anymore Old one..
Yes those black and decker power screwdriver are the best tool in the tool box my nefew gave me one for Christmas over 10 years ago and I thought what a usless peice of junk but I soon found it's the best tool I've found
I bought a fancy Everstart jump box in March. It's made by the same company that produces the same ones branded Stanley and CAT. It showed a 12.7v charge at purchase and jumped just fine for 7 months since I recharged it after each use with my 12v 400w inverter. Then I used it to recharge my cellphone overnight when being used. That dragged the jump battery down to 4.5v. Recharged it back to 13.8v where it dropped to 12.8v then 12.6v during the day. Tried using the jump feature on my car to find it no longer came on when the start button was pressed. The icons did show up when connected wrong or after the motor was running. I called their customer service to be told it was due to using the wrong 110v current. Somehow it needs that from a wall outlet only to get a full charge. Bought a new battery then recharged the box when driving by using the inverter for the next two months. The inverter fan would shut off when the inverter inside the jump box went into trickle charge mode. It did that at 13.9V but the battery would lose enough charge overnight to return to 12.6v with no jump starting. Think it took over 40 hours on trickle charge to get the battery fully charged to stay at 12.8v for weeks on end when not being used with the start button/jump start feature now functional.
As soon as you apologized for the beeping the first time I thought to myself oh I would have to remove that beeper. Right at the end I noticed that the brand new tennis ball rolled across the floor and that may have not been the first time it rolled across the floor but it was in the video and when he went to put it on his dog's nose it was covered in grease and grime.
Nice job of Troubleshooting . Great Find . I Would have got rid of the Beeper too. I have A (Older) 2000 Ha Ha ! or so B&D That still Works fine Even Though it Been Sitting Mostly.
FYI: A tiny bit of phosphoric acid added to the battery acid in a battery will cut WAY down on the sulphation and allow it to desulphate during charging with minimal damage to the lead plates. Just FYI
Your dog is truly “man’s best friend”. I have some pretty new Ryobi batteries that went on the fritz. Ryobi sent me new ones. Which was super cool. I wonder if u could use your diagnostic skills and find the problem. Thank u.
Generally it's just one set of cells in the pack that goes bad. I will open the pack and test each set 4.1full-3.0v empty and any cell that is way lower than this is generally bad. If I have two packs I will cannibalize one to make the other good by soldering in cells.
I just replaced the battery in my old harbor freight 3-in-1 jump starter, same as this really, same switch, same battery, none of the electronicals. I removed the analog battery guage and put in a digital one as I prefer them, and found the little wall wart they had in it was only 12v 500ma, no wonder it never charged the darned thing. I replaced with a 13.8v 500ma and it charges perfectly now. They are incredibly simple devices.
I have a lawn mower battery, with vice grips holding half a set of jumper cables on it...it is 100 times better a jump pack than any of these little jump boxes with SLA batteries. I've had those things go dead in as little as a year, the SLA battery actually going flat. And as he said, they NEVER have the cranking amps they say, nor can they crank anything over for more than minute or so before going flat.
Bought myself nice LED portable light from Costco but it stopped charging after a week. The micro usb solder mount/electrical connection broke lose. Super easy fix, just have to poke around a bit.
A common case of a cold solder joint boogers up electronics! All too often in the RC community I see fellers that have issues with their stuff, & it turns out to be a cold solder joint!
After you fix it make sure to keep the air pump running less than 10 mins and let it cool afterward for at least 30 mins. It will burn that thermal out
Looks like they have "improved" the electronic mountings. I got one where the boards had fallen off inside the case. It had 2 black plastic brackets on either side of the main board that didnt really hold the board. I see on yours they made one piece that went across the board. Also on yours there is a metal bracket that holds the wall wart charger in place, mine didnt have that and was loose but still in place. The solder connections for the charger were crap do it wouldn't charge. Fixed that and it works now. There just crap units with no quality control. Least we both got one for free. 😅
Oh those piezo beepers are indeed so annoyingly loud. I've removed few and if I've wanted to have notification nice trick is to screw something like m3 screw into them and it dampens level immediately to something like less than half of original 🙂
i just bought one of those battery analyzers an Ansel brand on looks same as yours, works great and seems very believable and accurate, i have the 100amp toaster style but its far too optimistic everything is a good battery and everything makes 1000+ Cranking amps.. even 11v batterys that wont crank a car at all i searched all over the internet looking for technical data on how these analyzers actually work but couldnt find anything, surely it places some kind of load on the battery to test for shorts and its voltage drop under load, but it has dinky little 16guage leads thatd melt at 40 amps id imagine, maybe they can flash like 100 amps though those leads for a tenth of a second and get the info they need without the big toaster element and heavy wires would love to see some videos on reviving car batteries, likely using a stick welder, just seen UTG do a couple videos on it but i think you could get right into it and make it a series.. car batteries are the number one thing people are always replacing.. i have 4 road vehicles 3 offroad ones and a pile of yard equipment with batteries.. seems every month or two im out buying a battery i have one that shows 10-11v and little to no cranking amps but its a large truck battery im gonna pop the tops fill it up and feed it 150 amps in cycles see how it feels about that
The little analyzers simply measure the internal resistance and calculate based on that. The toaster testers all seam wildly different. Mine does just the opposite and tells me everything is near bad on known good batteries. I have learned what means what with it over the years. I also have a 50amp toaster style and that says everything is great as 50amps really isn't much. I have old videos on reviving batteries and I will say the stick welder trick is a gimmick and only give superficial voltage. The battery will self discharge overnight and leave you stranded. The biggest issue with 12v car batteries is it is actually 6 batteries inside one case and it only takes one to short out to make the entire thing useless. Inside each of those 6 batteries is a bunch of lead plates that are essentially smaller batteries themselves(20ish).The lead plates are a consumable and with everything being super cheapened up I am only managing 8-10years out the best batteries and 5-6 out of the majority. Once the plates start falling apart they touch each other and short out. The stick welder is trying to arc out this/these shorts so they no longer touch. Problem is even if you get it to work, bump the battery and another lead chunk will fall and short out.
@@sixtyfiveford yeah forsure i wouldnt think itd be full proof otherwise everyone would be doing it, id have to believe uncle tony's garage and he says he took a battery sitting for years and did the refill and stick welder trick to it and stuck it in a car over a month ago and it now starts it great everytime after barely if at all cranking before.. seems like it was probably a low useage battery though not one thats had its moneys worth id be happy with 5-6 years i never get that, i get 1-3 up in canada.. even when theyre properly cared far, i mean not much to lose i have bad batteries, a good welder, and some water my uncle had a battery fail in under 6 months recently and it failed properly to where it wouldnt let the car start or run at all had a dead short in one or two of the cells even with a booster pack the battery seemed to eat up all the power and give the car issues starting and running, showed 12v too on a multimeter, put the toaster on it and it dropped to something silly like 4v knew it was the problem right there, with just the multimeter no load it i wouldnt of been able to see that though, thats why i wonder how the ancel testers would detect this sort of issue that only appears under load
Great video! Can you tell me how you would repair a broken button? I have an issue with mine right now, battery status button is stuck down and the unit won't stop beeping led screen stays lit. Thank you for your help
Great reminder that if somethings already broken you're not going to break it even more if you open it up to take a look, and it doesn't take Big Clive to diagnose and fix a faulty solder joint. Thanks for the vid!
Hey Thanks.
is it 'Bravery', 'Curiosity', Skill or 'Luck'? you're right about - 'already not working'. the not know if made worse...
Another great video! I know several people that would have just thrown this away. Awesome to see it get fixed instead of thrown away.
I like the way you tin your soldering iron's tip every time. I always forget that. In fact, I had forgotten about that over the years. Good technique. You're a fearless kind of a guy. I learn a lot.
The best one I learned from you was the Honda generator connection to a bulk tank. I did that on my two-Honda power station for my fifth wheel built into my truck bed box. Thank you.
Nice fix I have a booster box that I bought at Sam's club about 20yrs ago the battery finally died about 6yrs ago I found the exact replacement on eBay for $34 with free shipping I took it apart and installed the new one It still works great
i really do enjoy your videos. The explanations are clear and really easy to follow. Tips and tricks are well covered in plenty enough detail.Really good balance. Never being blinded by science nor dumbed down. you take the time to make video shots cover exactly what we need to see. Thanks for your work. Keep doing what you do. And Ginger doggy. so clever! So loyal!! reminds me of my own sheepdog, Roxy. (GSD x Border Collie). I have a little video of her on my channel. she made it to 20 yro. Really REALLY liked me bouncing tennis balls on tarmac hard so she could run and still catch. Thanks.
20years, that's impressive and great that you had such a long time with Roxy. I glad you enjoy the videos. -Moe
It makes you wander how much stuff gets thrown out that is a simple fix to get it going. I stopped buying Stanley products along time ago the quality just isn’t there anymore. Anyway thanks for sharing love your channel
It's a shame that big corporations buy out good companies and just run the brand through the mud for cheap products.
Came for the repair, stayed for the dog. Great save. I have a microwave that has the loudest and most annoying beep I’ve ever heard. I keep hoping the microwave will take a dump so I can justify opening it up.
LOL. This dang thing had to beep at me 80 times while I was working on it.
I heard some microwaves have a secret button combo to turn off the end beeps, but i couldn't find one for mine.
Moe, I bought one of these also about a year ago from Sam’s Club and so far so good. But you always wonder. Thanks for the video, gives me somewhere to troubleshoot. This was probably built on a Friday afternoon. My compressor is comparable to the M12 Milwaukee I own. They are ok for a motorcycle or bike but a car tire is a challenge. You’re the man!
That's good to know.
I hope you didn't purchase the extended warranty!!! It makes the manufacturers warranty obsolete and they don't tell you that. Mine burnt out a few weeks ago. Thought everything was okay cause I shouldve had a year left on the warranty..... but nope!
Now I'm trying to find a replacement compressor assembly to swap out the burnt one. And after a week of searching, no luck so far. And if you can swap out a car stereo and speakers, you can swap out this stupid part.
I thought it would be a bad battery like most of them are. I just discovered your channel and you have got some good videos with good examples of troubleshooting and problem solving.
You caught that bad solder joint pretty quickly. I like your logical approach to the diagnostic.
Great diagnosis Bud!! It's nice when an electrical problem just jumps out like that!!☻
Heck yeah, can't be a simple fix.
@@sixtyfiveford My Fatmax turns on out of nowhere the compressor I press any key and out of nowhere it turns on when it wants to turn off what can I do please help me
@@diazdiaz6807 I have the same problem with the Ever Start 1200. Just turns on. I have no idea how to make it stay off. Everything talks about using it and turning it on. Nothing about turning off.
Not 2 weeks ago I opened mine up. It was about 20 years old.. It's been dead on my shelf for years and totally forgotten, but I opened it up and it was the exact same battery as inside of yours!! I also liked charging mine off from a real battery charger and did it by hooking the jumper leads to my charger leads. I'd heard you could not do that on some jump boxes and that people were trying it and popping a fuse of something inside. Mine was pretty simple and as long as the switch was closed, it charged.. I had to use mine as a booster for my trailer winch several times and man did that work well!!
if for some reason you want to keep the beeper, but it's just too damn loud. A piece of tape over the top of them will often attenuate the volume dramatically.
I put my finger over it at first with plans to do just this and it was still annoying(though much less so).
@@sixtyfiveford I had a fan with an annoying beep and I hit the buzzer with a glob of hot glue. No more beeping and I didn't have to worry about screwing up the circuit board.
I extremely appreciate this video!! My girl picked one of these up for me out of our neighbors trash because my neighbor said it didn't work! Well it did!! And with this video I learned A LOT more about it!!! Thank you very much!!!
I just picked one up similarly. Having a heck of a time trying to figure out if it is worth lugging around. Going to o a full charge and amp hour test on it to see that but I rerally picked it up hoping it had a high amp charger for its own battery and to use parts with a deep cycle off grid set up. Not sure it's worth tearing into for me, might pass it on
Great fix, when I buy a computer UPS I twist off the beeper, very easy, no un-soldering needed, just twist left & right and they come off the board cleanly.
Twisting if off would be a ton easier.
I actually got this exact same one that one of my tenants left in our property. The issue with mine was one of the buttons was broke and stuck inside the unit. I opened it to repair the button and reassembled it. Evidently just as you did, I hit the connector for the USB ports and disconnected it. It was doing the exact thing yours was, flashing and wouldn't turn off. I figured it was probably something in the circuitry and was going to tear back into it when I had time. Then out of nowhere you posted this video! I swear it was just a couple days ago I was working on mine and I was looking for videos to see if I could get an idea of what was wrong.
Seeing your discovery of the connector, I knew exactly what was wrong with mine. I was so excited I paused your video grabbed mine and fixed it in less than 5 minutes.
Thank you for that! More than likely I would have discovered the problem when I tore back into it, but I'm sure it would have been days maybe weeks down the road. Now it works perfectly!
I may go back in and delete the beeper as well!
Can you tell me how you repaired the broken button? I have the same issue with mine right now, button is stuck down and the unit won't stop beeping. Thank you for your help
@@bsmith1220 I wish I could help. It's been 2 years and I barely remember having it much less working on it. I will say it was an easy fix. I say open it up and the problem will be readily apparent.
I added a new 20 amp hour battery to one of these fixing it for a friend. It also had a loose usb connection and the original battery was low capacity when I tested it. But the new one works great. Great video!
Nice work!
Great job Moe, as always great teaching, thorough, easy to understand, and helpful.
Glad you think so!
A majority of family appliance repairs or short lifespan electronics repairs that I have done were broken solder nodes. It's one of the first things I look for in a troubleshoot. Most of the time it's due to a cold solder joint on a larger gauge wire or component lead - operator or flow solder parameter error.
The usb plug was hanging loose prior to you putting the cover back on.
Thank you for all your vids. I’ve learned a lot.
I put one of these jump pack style batteries into my 22hp zero turn mower, works well. In freezing weather if I need to start it I always supplement with another jump pack at cold start, but subsequent starts are fine. In summer it cold starts just fine. It's lasted way longer than the standard lead acid batteries that the mower came with.
For years I just used a jump start pack on a few pieces of equipment as the only battery. It works if you have the space for it.
@@sixtyfiveford I removed the battery from the pack and just used it. It's smaller than the battery it replaced.
It's been decades since I bought a mower battery. I just save the truck batteries and strap one on the mower running board, and tho it won't start a 2600 cc engine, always starts the mower. I always have an exchange battery too.
Thanks saw this in for market. The guy said won’t work. For 10.00 how could I go wrong? Loose wire…score works great!! Thank you for your video to help me fix it!✌️❤️
Thank You so very much Brother Man : fixed mine just like You did : However went one step further Installed Off Switch At Compressor to Keep it out of the loop : as mine was keeping mine from charging battry !!! " God Bless " You each and every day !!! Plus love the Dog !!!
Saw the usb plug loose when u first took cover off… lol. I’d say a lot of those got tossed for simple things like that… good vid man!
That was a good repair but Ginger definitely does NOT need a jump start. She jumps very well on her own. Thanks and GBWYall!
So true!
When i worked at farm and fleet, they sold those Stanley jump packs, it was part of my job to remove the batteries from the defected ones because they were destroy/ no return to vendor.
I fixed almost every single one before i destroyed it. I asked the manager once what the return rate was, 20%.
Dang, that's a pretty high return rate.
Wow that sucks. But hey, now we know it's an easy fix and the units themselves aren't too trash lol
I had a feeling you were going to open it up a third time and delete the beeper LOL, I would’ve done the same, great video thank you
Dang beeping! Was bad enough that it would do it when you push the button, but it would constantly go off every 30 seconds while the leads were engaged.
As typical, electronics doesn't like to work without power. Not really unusual to see bad solder joints in so many electronic items. They just don't do quality solder connections properly unless it is a high end product. Thumbs Up!
I got mine half price new last summer. I used it all winter. Well worth the money. I am definitely going to delete the annoying buzzer on my unit too.
Great to hear!
Great fix on a free power pack ..It would be a nice one to take camping I had a 74 Nova and had that Irritating seat belt buzzer
I could not get it un plugged so I crushed it with my pliers and once in a while it would still work and make a low growling sound that sounded
so funny like it was dying
Smash it with pliers! That's awesome.
Thanks for the video, especially about how to take it apart. I keep mine in my truck tool box since it is a lead acid battery. I probably wouldn't do that with a lithium battery because of the heat.
You were blessed Moe , Most of those SLA batteries have full voltage and no amp hour after sitting , I do like to try them on the pulse charger and many revive for me .. I have a vid on that , So far I have found 1 in 4 come back to 90% .. That one was just a bad wiring job by the builder as they are so mass produced !
I've seen this happen & fixed quite a few myself. Solder flows onto the tinned the wire but if you don't get enough heat transfer to the pad, it can fool your eye into thinking it's fine, so you look closer & no bueno!!🤣🤣
So true.
I purchased one in 2008 at Sam's Club and still works today. They are well made.
A small piece of duct tape over the hole on the beeper might of been a better 'fix', but I understand the annoyance. Great video on eliminating waste.
it will work when you plug in the board, that's amazing !
I'm with you with these beeps. Everything beeps, I even got rid of the microwave and changed it for an early one without all the digital beeps every time you press something. Start a movement, I'll be your man in the UK branch.
Dang beeping
@@sixtyfiveford, The hatred of the beep is definitely from watching BEEB BEEB Road Runner while taking the side of Wile E. Coyote.
Excellent diagnosis and repair. Glad you have all that knowledge and skill. Thanks for the video's
Hey thanks
You need to plug it in the wall outlet once a month to keep the battery from crapping out over time. That's what the instructions say anyway.
Yeah for sure. Let acid batteries can kind of be finicky.
Nice job
I have one I need to take apart and look at....probably the same issue. Accept everything works except the jumper cables
Hey Thanks. Wonder if your switch is bad.
@@sixtyfiveford yep thats what Im leaning toward
Good info! I have one of them and it’s dead. Can’t wait to crack the case!
Shout out from your neighbor to the south, I live in Herriman. I really enjoy your channel and hopefully one day I'll run into you locally but I do a lot of my own repairs like this and can totally believe why it failed.
Thanks for the great content and keep it up.
Howdy Neighbor! Thanks for watching. It's always great to meet fellow Utahns.
We find these on the trash route a lot and my boss doesn’t want them being ran through the packer because of fire risk. We send them in once a year for the lead. Interesting to see if maybe they can be fixed.
When my kids were young, I would delete the beep function of whatever toy they had.
Smart Man
Pop bought a coffee maker at a black Friday store , I had to take it apart to find they never plugged the power switch .. Easy fix an Pop is happy with it
I have the exact same one.
It would be really awesome if you did a video on how do use your voltage meter. I know enough to be dangerous about one, but the truth is it’s kind of like dark magic for most people. Love your show brother. Need to get that old Ford on the road. I got my 63 Ford F250 run and last year, my kids and wife love driving it around with me to go get ice cream. I’ve had that old 63 Ford since 1995.
I freaking love how much I learn from this channel!
I couldn’t agree more
Hey Thanks.
The dog was an added treat to this video.
That plug-in on the board magically plugged it's self back in 5:37.
Gotta love o'l Ginger...I've found the same problem on some ceramic heaters..i guess there building them a little too fast..
Came to watch you save another item from the landfill. Stayed to see Ginger close the show.
Thanks Man
Got one just like it had it for about three or four years used it maybe five times last time took a charge but then it died started to throw it out before I did I took it apart the positive lead to the battery nut bolt came loose and fell off
negative side was just loose unbelievable almost threw it out works perfect now
i have this same one i got used for 40 bucks. it kinda works. i replaced the battery, but it's still iffy. i have 4 others i got for free because they wouldn't hold a charge, and just replaced the battery and they work as they should. i haven't really checked out the stanley again yet. it has a lot more going on inside than the others.
I was stranded years ago and got the idea to try and jump my jeep using my old 18 volt NiCad DeWalt pack. I had known from a kids power wheels expierment which terminal was positive so I hooked my cables up using a couple screws to hook onto the batt. Tabs. Not sure how the lipo packs would act but I would definitely try if needed.
Good call on that one. And a good fix. I have one of those battery analyzers. comes in hand.
Thanks. Yeah, I use the battery analyzer all the time.
Good diagnosis and slick fixes.
Thanks
Good score (on the jump start box).
Perfect Ginger.
Hey Thanks.
notice @3:58 the usb board connector is disconnected then @6:36 until 9:14 it's connected, then @11:52 it's disconnected again until it get fixed (again?) @12:00!
Still good info!!
Great vid ! Well done and explained ! Crazy how easy something slips through the QC of those 11 year old boys in PRC..... would love to see you build (using one of the current jump pack cases) a seriously powerful jump pack that you’d be able to actually rely on in an off grid sitn for more than just one or two jumpstarts and a tire inflation.
I've given this some thought and may have to make it a reality.
@@sixtyfiveford Lithium Ion for sure
I have a Cummins with 2 1000 Amp batteries and I found a 6000 Amp lithium 12v Avapow at Walmart for $ 93.00 and glad I did . My truck batteries are 3 years old and I have had to use the jump start 3 times. Really surprised.
Great video Mo! I bought one of these tested from your link!!
You picked up the lithium one? I love those.
I've had that same jump pack for over 5 years it's been a good one.
Good to know
Thanks for showing this. Awesome video. Great all around tips 👍 all through out. thanks for your time. And your dog is awesome! 🐕 I appreciate you showing me what's in mine beofre I take my cover off of it
Thank you and you did it again gave us a great video great entertainment I wish I was a smarter as you.. I can’t even remember how to wire tractor up anymore Old one..
Glad you enjoyed it
Yes those black and decker power screwdriver are the best tool in the tool box my nefew gave me one for Christmas over 10 years ago and I thought what a usless peice of junk but I soon found it's the best tool I've found
I bought a fancy Everstart jump box in March. It's made by the same company that produces the same ones branded Stanley and CAT. It showed a 12.7v charge at purchase and jumped just fine for 7 months since I recharged it after each use with my 12v 400w inverter. Then I used it to recharge my cellphone overnight when being used. That dragged the jump battery down to 4.5v. Recharged it back to 13.8v where it dropped to 12.8v then 12.6v during the day. Tried using the jump feature on my car to find it no longer came on when the start button was pressed. The icons did show up when connected wrong or after the motor was running. I called their customer service to be told it was due to using the wrong 110v current. Somehow it needs that from a wall outlet only to get a full charge. Bought a new battery then recharged the box when driving by using the inverter for the next two months. The inverter fan would shut off when the inverter inside the jump box went into trickle charge mode. It did that at 13.9V but the battery would lose enough charge overnight to return to 12.6v with no jump starting. Think it took over 40 hours on trickle charge to get the battery fully charged to stay at 12.8v for weeks on end when not being used with the start button/jump start feature now functional.
Wow... I have one of these that is doing the same thing as this one. I was going to throw it away, but I may try this.
I have one of these, doesn’t work great but I’m definitely doing the beep delete
As soon as you apologized for the beeping the first time I thought to myself oh I would have to remove that beeper. Right at the end I noticed that the brand new tennis ball rolled across the floor and that may have not been the first time it rolled across the floor but it was in the video and when he went to put it on his dog's nose it was covered in grease and grime.
Nice job of Troubleshooting . Great Find . I Would have got rid of the Beeper too. I have A (Older) 2000 Ha Ha ! or so B&D That still Works fine Even Though it Been Sitting Mostly.
Dang constant beeping.
That was a easy fix! Nice way to get a free jump box
Hey thanks. Can't beat free.
One man's junk is another man's treasure!
Good diagnostic and fix.
Can't beat a free tool.
i have one and thank you for showing me how to fix it my did same thing and i put it on the side now i can fix it thank you
FYI: A tiny bit of phosphoric acid added to the battery acid in a battery will cut WAY down on the sulphation and allow it to desulphate during charging with minimal damage to the lead plates. Just FYI
Your dog is so smart
Your dog is truly “man’s best friend”. I have some pretty new Ryobi batteries that went on the fritz. Ryobi sent me new ones. Which was super cool. I wonder if u could use your diagnostic skills and find the problem. Thank u.
Generally it's just one set of cells in the pack that goes bad. I will open the pack and test each set 4.1full-3.0v empty and any cell that is way lower than this is generally bad. If I have two packs I will cannibalize one to make the other good by soldering in cells.
I just replaced the battery in my old harbor freight 3-in-1 jump starter, same as this really, same switch, same battery, none of the electronicals.
I removed the analog battery guage and put in a digital one as I prefer them, and found the little wall wart they had in it was only 12v 500ma, no wonder it never charged the darned thing.
I replaced with a 13.8v 500ma and it charges perfectly now.
They are incredibly simple devices.
I suspected a bad solder joint. I've run into that with stuff made in China. Apparently they don't teach their workers how to solder. Good fix.
Good job Moe! You should give it to your brother in law for a house warming present lol
I have a lawn mower battery, with vice grips holding half a set of jumper cables on it...it is 100 times better a jump pack than any of these little jump boxes with SLA batteries. I've had those things go dead in as little as a year, the SLA battery actually going flat. And as he said, they NEVER have the cranking amps they say, nor can they crank anything over for more than minute or so before going flat.
Thanks from millwright mac Las vegas
That dog is amazing
Bought myself nice LED portable light from Costco but it stopped charging after a week. The micro usb solder mount/electrical connection broke lose. Super easy fix, just have to poke around a bit.
That's awesome. So many people are afraid to take anything apart especially new stuff.
A common case of a cold solder joint boogers up electronics!
All too often in the RC community I see fellers that have issues with their stuff, & it turns out to be a cold solder joint!
So true.
Coool fix.great when it actually jumps out at ya like that eh, good job!
Got lucky this time.
After you fix it make sure to keep the air pump running less than 10 mins and let it cool afterward for at least 30 mins. It will burn that thermal out
Looks like they have "improved" the electronic mountings. I got one where the boards had fallen off inside the case. It had 2 black plastic brackets on either side of the main board that didnt really hold the board. I see on yours they made one piece that went across the board. Also on yours there is a metal bracket that holds the wall wart charger in place, mine didnt have that and was loose but still in place. The solder connections for the charger were crap do it wouldn't charge. Fixed that and it works now. There just crap units with no quality control. Least we both got one for free. 😅
It's an atypical cold solder joint. I've come across a lot of those.
Little Chinese finger working too fast.
Nice troubleshooting video! Don't be afraid to pull a few screws out and take a look!
Oh those piezo beepers are indeed so annoyingly loud. I've removed few and if I've wanted to have notification nice trick is to screw something like m3 screw into them and it dampens level immediately to something like less than half of original 🙂
Great tip!
Thanks from Texas Moe
Thanks Jason!
Saw that solder joint move
Good troubleshooting.
Thanks.
Good job Moe!
Hey Thanks.
i just bought one of those battery analyzers an Ansel brand on looks same as yours, works great and seems very believable and accurate, i have the 100amp toaster style but its far too optimistic everything is a good battery and everything makes 1000+ Cranking amps.. even 11v batterys that wont crank a car at all
i searched all over the internet looking for technical data on how these analyzers actually work but couldnt find anything, surely it places some kind of load on the battery to test for shorts and its voltage drop under load, but it has dinky little 16guage leads thatd melt at 40 amps id imagine, maybe they can flash like 100 amps though those leads for a tenth of a second and get the info they need without the big toaster element and heavy wires
would love to see some videos on reviving car batteries, likely using a stick welder, just seen UTG do a couple videos on it but i think you could get right into it and make it a series.. car batteries are the number one thing people are always replacing.. i have 4 road vehicles 3 offroad ones and a pile of yard equipment with batteries.. seems every month or two im out buying a battery i have one that shows 10-11v and little to no cranking amps but its a large truck battery im gonna pop the tops fill it up and feed it 150 amps in cycles see how it feels about that
The little analyzers simply measure the internal resistance and calculate based on that. The toaster testers all seam wildly different. Mine does just the opposite and tells me everything is near bad on known good batteries. I have learned what means what with it over the years. I also have a 50amp toaster style and that says everything is great as 50amps really isn't much.
I have old videos on reviving batteries and I will say the stick welder trick is a gimmick and only give superficial voltage. The battery will self discharge overnight and leave you stranded. The biggest issue with 12v car batteries is it is actually 6 batteries inside one case and it only takes one to short out to make the entire thing useless. Inside each of those 6 batteries is a bunch of lead plates that are essentially smaller batteries themselves(20ish).The lead plates are a consumable and with everything being super cheapened up I am only managing 8-10years out the best batteries and 5-6 out of the majority. Once the plates start falling apart they touch each other and short out. The stick welder is trying to arc out this/these shorts so they no longer touch. Problem is even if you get it to work, bump the battery and another lead chunk will fall and short out.
@@sixtyfiveford yeah forsure i wouldnt think itd be full proof otherwise everyone would be doing it, id have to believe uncle tony's garage and he says he took a battery sitting for years and did the refill and stick welder trick to it and stuck it in a car over a month ago and it now starts it great everytime after barely if at all cranking before.. seems like it was probably a low useage battery though not one thats had its moneys worth
id be happy with 5-6 years i never get that, i get 1-3 up in canada.. even when theyre properly cared far, i mean not much to lose i have bad batteries, a good welder, and some water
my uncle had a battery fail in under 6 months recently and it failed properly to where it wouldnt let the car start or run at all had a dead short in one or two of the cells even with a booster pack the battery seemed to eat up all the power and give the car issues starting and running, showed 12v too on a multimeter, put the toaster on it and it dropped to something silly like 4v knew it was the problem right there, with just the multimeter no load it i wouldnt of been able to see that though, thats why i wonder how the ancel testers would detect this sort of issue that only appears under load
Maybe it was working when the QC person tested it but became loose some time after that, but you found the problem. I hate those beepers also.
Yeah my brother-in-law said it worked when he first got it. The wire must have barely been touching.
I have that same one it works great
Great video! Can you tell me how you would repair a broken button? I have an issue with mine right now, battery status button is stuck down and the unit won't stop beeping led screen stays lit. Thank you for your help
I've got a couple booster packs that Ive been thinking of lithium swapping.
Nice fix